Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

2 (1/2 pint) baskets fresh
-raspberries
2 tb Sugar
1/2 c Plus 2 T raspberry liqueur
1/4 c Cognac or other brandy
8 Sugar cubes
1 (750 ml) bottle chilled
-brut Champagne
Fresh raspberries
Lemon peel strips

Combine 2 baskets raspberries and 2 tablespoons sugar in medium bowl.
Mash berries lightly with fork. Let stand 15 minutes. Mix in liqueur
and brandy. Pour into jar. Cover and let stand in dark cupboard 3
days. Strain raspberry mixture, pressing on solids with spoon to
extract as much liquid as possible. (Can be made 1 month ahead. Cover
and chill.)

Place one sugar cube in each of eight 6-oz Champagne flutes. Pour 2
tablespoons raspberry mixture over each sugar cube. Pour Champagne
over to fill glasses. Garnish each with raspberries and lemon peel.

From the North Champagne Ile de France regions of France. Bon
Appetit/May 94 Typed by Didi Pahl

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